On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Bill Vodall WA7NWP wrote:
> PS. Is anybody here a TCL/Expect guru and know how to do the equivalent of a
> PERL -e "$line =~ s/\s{3,99}/ /" to squish any sequence of 3 or more spaces
> down to 2 spaces? I think that will significantly shorten the packets while
> not changing the resulting display.
Why not use "sed" to do the same thing? Can you shell out from
TCL/Expect to do that? I think so.
I've hacked on Tcl and Expect scripts before, but wouldn't remember
anything about it now.
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